Spritsail is the bi-annual journal of the history of Falmouth and vicinity published by the Woods
Hole Historical Collection. We have limited numbers of extra copies of individual issues that can be purchased
through our Gift Shop for $7 per issue. To order issues,
please print out our Order Form. | Issues from 2010 - 2019 | Issues from 2000 - 2009 | Issues from 1990 - 1999 | Issues from 1987 - 1989 |
2017 | |
Volume 31, Number 2: Summer 2017 Contents: From the Editors 60 Years of the Falmouth Theatre Guild --Joanne Briana-Gartner The Old Stone Dock at 200 --Leonard Miele Surf Drive Houses A Ten-Year Retrospective of Spritsail Articles Excerpts from 2007-2017 --The Editorial Board Spritsail's Table of Contents 2007-2017 Poem: Falmouth --Katharine Lee Bates |
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Volume 31, Number 1: Winter 2017 Contents: From the Editors The House That Was --Maria C. Ward Recollections of the Webster House --Alex Hiam A Picture is Worth 1,000 Words: Donald Fish, the Man Behind the Vintage Falmouth Photographs --Christine M. Lynch Hard Against the Rising Ground --Thomas Sbarra Our Last Shoemaker --Celia Brown |
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2016 | |
Volume 30, Number 2: Summer 2016 Contents: From the Editors The Last One to Go --Mary Steinbach Ulbrich A Life of Science at Sea --Tom Stetson Poem: Mixed Grace --Oliviann Hobbie Two Exhibitions Not to be Missed |
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Volume 30, Number 1: Winter 2016 Contents: From the Editors Sam Cahoon --John Valois A Happy WHOI Story --Barbara (Bobby) Atwood Colburn Falmouth Country Club --Maria C. Ward A Childhood Memoir --Tom Turkington Letter Membership Form |
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2015 | |
Volume 29, Number 2: Summer 2015 Contents: From the Editors Wood Lumber Company --Deborah Griffin Scanlon Charles S. Burgess --Tucker M. Clark Abbott's Point --Martha Burnham Train Trip --Martha Burnham Earth's Day, Fells Road --Olivann Hobbie |
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Volume 29, Number 1: Winter 2015 Contents: From the Editors Memories of the DoReMi Houses --Robert W. Griffin and Deborah Griffin Scanlon George W. Jones --Maria C. Ward Dr. George H. Greene --Marcia C. Ward Paul Ferris Smith 1921-2014 --Jennifer Stone Gaines Dusk in October --Samm Carlton Museum Membership |
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2014 |
Volume 28, Number 1: Winter 2014 Contents: From the Editors "Let the Good Work Go On" From the Board of Trade and Industry to the Chamber of Commerce --Maria C. Ward My Grandmother --Clara Gray Remembering Mary Louise Cole Smith --Judy Stetson An Exact Lady --Eric H. Edwards The House Above Nobska Pond --Samm Carlton and Mary Carlton Swope House --Samm Carlton Joseph Story Fay: The Life of a Modest Man by Susan Fletcher Witzell --Review by Christine M. Lynch Letter to the Editors Membership Form |
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2013 | |
Volume 27, Number 2: Summer 2013 Contents: Rachel Carson and Woods Hole --Jim Hain Remembrances of a Cruise with Rachel Carson --Roland L. Wigley Three Visions of Rachel Carson --Eric Edwards Waquiot Bay: Prehistory, History, and Natural History --Nancy Church |
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Volume 27, Number 1: Winter 2013 Contents: The Portuguese in Falmouth: 1870 to 1930 --Lewis A. White Old House Tells a Story --John A. DeMello River Bend Silo --Ann Sears Sunnyside/Riverbed Timeline --Nannette Drake Oldenbourg Letter to the Editors |
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2012 | |
Volume 26, Number 2: Summer 2012 Contents: Reflections --Paul Ferris Smith Falmouth and the Second War of Independence E. Graham Ward* The Cannon (and Cannon Ball) Controversies --E. Graham Ward* Hollywood Comes to Falmouth --Leonard Miele A Hole in the World --Eric H. Edwards Letters to the Editors * E. Graham Ward passed away suddenly on May 23, 2012. He was an editor of Spritsail. He was also a fine researcher and an excellent writer. He frequently contributed articles to Spritsail, including this very issue. We will miss his intellectual contributions and his stimulating company. We extend our sympathy to Maria and their children. |
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Volume 25A, Number 1: Winter 2011 Contents: From the Editors Florence Eldred Johnson, 1892-1984 --E. Graham Ward The Oak Grove Cemetery of Falmouth: People That Made America Great From the Revolution to Today compiled by Nathan S. Ellis Photo Essay: The Restoration and Renovation of the Katharine Lee Bates House --Maria C. Ward The Art, Music and Oceanography of Fritz Fuglister --Jennifer Gaines & Anne Halpin --Fritz Fuglister's Oceanography by Philip L. Richardson |
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2011 | |
Volume 25, Number 2: Summer 2011 Contents: From the Editors Portraits of Woods Hole, The Legacy of Franklin Lewis Gifford --Deborah Griffin Scanlon and Robert Wendell Griffin Antoinette Palmer Jones: The Goodness and Power of One Christian --Rev. Dr. Douglas K. Showalter Letter --Re: WW II, Vol. 25, No. 1 |
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Volume 25, Number 1: Winter 2011 Contents: From the Editors The Impact of World War II on Soldiers, Scientists, Civilians and the Town of Falmouth --T. Richardson Miner, Jr. More Stories About Falmouth Veterans of World War II William Banks Eleanor Daniels Bronson-Hodge Russel McCallum Albert Wilson George F. Kelly Dick Brooks Woods Hole in World War II --excerpts collected by Judith G. Stetson Letter --Re: Living off the Land, Vol. 24, No. 2 |
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2010 | |
Volume 24, Number 2: Summer 2010 Contents: From the Editors The Woods Hole Clippers: Filling the Postwar Years With Baseball, Basketball, and Camaraderie --Deborah Griffin Scanlon Living off the Land -- A Photo and Timeline Essay --Nannette Drake Oldenbourg Harvesting a Return and Home in Plymouth (Poems) --Jarita Davis |
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Volume 24, Number 1: Winter 2010 Contents: From the Editors NOAA Ship Albatross IV --Compiled by Linda Despres From Island Ferry to Hospital Ship --E. Graham Ward Salt Song (Poem) |
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Issues from 2010 - 2019 | Issues from 2000 - 2009 | Issues from 1990 - 1999 | Issues from 1987 - 1989 |